The Government is to bring in a new boss to turn around Coventry?s under-fire hospitals after another critical report.

An outside troubleshooter, who has managed a successful hospital elsewhere, will take over the management of Walsgrave, Coventry and Warwickshire and Rugby St Cross hospitals.

An official announcement was being made later today following the publication of a progress review by the Commission for Health Improvement, which was highly critical of the hospital last September.

The chief executive?s position is set to be ?franchised out?. David Loughton has announced he?s standing down from the role.

Chairman of the trust Bryan Stoten said: ?The government is not replacing all of the management. We want to re-establish confidence in the trust and Alan Milburn is keen to move this forward.?

The new review shows that warring doctors and split site emergency services are still a problem at the Coventry hospitals.

The CHI is still worried about poor relationships between some senior doctors and top level managers and the review highlights tensions within clinical teams.

It says more work is needed on this and only limited progress has been made so far.

There are also concerns that the trust does not have a clear plan for reorganising emergency services.

Since last September's report the trust has been working on an action plan to put things right.

This latest report by NHS inspectors is based on inter-views, evidence gathering and a three-day site visit carried out in January.

The CHI recognises there has been satisfactory progress in the other three most serious areas, placing five patients in bays meant for four - which stopped in August - high death rates for non emergency admissions and the need to address current service problems.

It recognises cultural change to help foster better relationships is a long-term project but calls for strong focus by all and an ongoing commitment from the board.

Peter Homa, CHI?s chief executive, said: ?Although progress has been made at the trust there is still a considerable amount of work to be done, especially around the relationship between some senior doctors and senior managers at the trust and the relationships within some teams.?

David Loughton, outgoing chief executive for the trust, said: ?Out of 163 separate actions required, to have achieved 158 of them is a credit to a very large number of people.

?Staff have worked exceptionally hard. CHI is not satisfied with the emergency services but I have not been happy with split site accident and emergency for the last 10 years.

?If there was a cheap and easy answer we would have done it years ago.?